Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Fieler, Christian 1861 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

CHRISTIAN FIELER.

    Christian Fieler, a prominent and well-known farmer of Center township, Lake
county, is a native son and a life-long resident of the county, and has enjoyed
a prosperous career devoted to the agricultural interests in this fine farming
section. He is likewise one of the public-spirited men of this part of the
county, performing his share of the duties of society, and is held in high
esteem both for his own personal character and for what he has accomplished in
the world of material things.

    Mr. Fieler was born in Hobart township, Lake county, Indiana, July 10, 1861.
His father, Jacob Fieler, was a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to
America and to Lake county in the year 1854. He was one of the early settlers
and bought a farm in Ross township, where he continued his vocation of farmer
until his death in 1877, when in his fifty-eighth year. He was a member of the
German Methodist church, and a well-known and representative citizen of the
county. His wife was Catharine Kelver, a native of the same province of Germany
from which he came, and she died at the age of sixty-nine years, having been the
mother of five children.

    Mr. Christian Fieler was the only son and the youngest child. He was reared
in Hobart township, and was educated in the public schools of Ross township and
also of Chicago. He was sixteen years old when his father died, and he then took
the mantle of manly responsibility and carried on the work of the farm, in which
his father had trained him. His mother died in 1884, and he then bought the
interest of the other heirs in the old homestead and continued his farming there
until 1898. He then sold and moved to Center township, where he bought his
present place on Section 3, consisting of one hundred and twenty acres, fertile,
well improved and highly cultivated. He also has sixty-three acres in Winfield
township and two hundred in Ross township, so that altogether he is the
possessor of three hundred and eighty-three acres of first-class Lake county
soil. Besides his general farming work he buys and ships stock, and has carried
on his extensive concerns with much individual success and profit.

    Mr. Fieler was married in 1901 to Miss Alice Palmer, a daughter of H. D. and
Catherine (Underwood) Palmer, one of the prominent families of Lake county. Mrs.
Fieler was born and reared in Ross township, and was educated in the Crown Point
schools. Mr. Fieler has always been a stanch Republican since casting his first
presidential vote for Blaine in 1884.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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